William Casey

William Casey
Born	William Joseph Casey March 13, 1913 Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Died	May 6, 1987 (Age 74) Roslyn Harbor, New York
Alma mater	Fordham University, St. John's University Law School
Religion	Roman Catholic
Founder of	Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Member of	Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Committee on the Present Danger/Members, Knights of Malta, Le Cercle, Office of Strategic Services
Perpetrator of	The secret war against Sweden
Party	Republican
Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, who was appointed Director of Central Intelligence.  Director of Central Intelligence In office January 28, 1981 - January 29, 1987 Deputy Bobby Ray Inman Preceded by Stansfield Turner Succeeded by William Webster Retired due to a brain tumor.  Campaign Director In office 1980 - November 4, 1980 Appointed by Ronald Reagan Appointed during the republican primaries.  Export-Import Bank of the United States/Chairman In office 1974 - 1976 Employer Export-Import Bank of the United States  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission/Chair In office April 14, 1971 - February 2, 1973 Appointed as a reward for his work on the Nixon campaign.  Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth Energy and the Environment In office February 2, 1973 - March 14, 1974

William J. Casey was President Reagan's successful 1980 campaign director, and was appointed as CIA director. As CIA director, Casey aggressively promoted Reagan's anti-communist line, blaming the USSR for global "terrorism" and citing misleading estimates of Soviet strength to try to justify increased spending on the MICC.

Background

After attending both public and private schools as a youth, Casey entered Fordham University with plans to pursue a career in social work. He graduated from Fordham in 1934, then after a brief stint at Catholic University in Washington D.C., moved on to St. John's University Law School in the Bronx, where he received his J.D. in 1937.

Career

In 1938 he took a job at Leo Cherne's Research Institute of America. In December 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Casey took a jobs at the Bureau of Economic Warfare and, after receiving a commission as a navy lieutenant in the navy's Office of Procurement, he graduated to the Office of Strategic Services.

'War on Terror'

Full article: “War on Terror”

Casey was a member of Le Cercle, and aggressively promoted a false narrative promoted by fellow member of Le Cercle, Brian Crozier who spoke at the 1979 JCIT on "Soviet Support for International Terrorism". As CIA director, Casey played a large part in the shaping of US Foreign policy under Ronald Reagan, particularly his approach to Soviet international activity. Citing the book, The Terror Network, he echoed Crozier's claim that the Soviet Union was the source of most worldwide terrorist activity. This, in spite of CIA analysts providing evidence that this was in fact black propaganda by the CIA itself. Casey assisted in the rapid expansion of Crozier's UK operations by providing a "suitably substantial budget".

Pollard case

High-level suspicions about Israeli-Soviet collusion were expressed as early as December, 1985, a month after Pollard's arrest, when William J. Casey, the late C.I.A. director, who was known for his close ties to the Israeli leadership, stunned one of his station chiefs by suddenly complaining about the Israelis breaking the "ground rules." The issue arose when Casey urged increased monitoring of the Israelis during an otherwise routine visit, I was told by the station chief, who is now retired. "He asked if I knew anything about the Pollard case," the station chief recalled, and he said that Casey had added, "For your information, the Israelis used Pollard to obtain our attack plan against the U.S.S.R. all of it. The coordinates, the firing locations, the sequences. And for guess who? The Soviets." Casey had then explained that the Israelis had traded the Pollard data for Soviet emigres. "How's that for cheating?" he had asked.

Iran-Contra

Full article: Iran-Contra affair

Just hours before Casey was scheduled to testify before US Congress on his knowledge of Iran-Contra, he was reported to have been rendered incapable of speech during an operation to remove a brain tumor. In a 1987 book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, Washington Post reporter and biographer Bob Woodward, claimed (denied by Casey's wife, Sofia) to have gained entry into Casey's hospital room for a final, four-minute encounter. According to Woodward, when Casey was asked if he knew about the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras, "His head jerked up hard. He stared, and finally nodded yes." He died less than 24 hours after the first witness, Richard V. Secord in Congressional hearings on Iran-Contra affair had named him as having assisted in providing arms to Nicaraguan rebels after Congress forbade such support.

Quotes

• At a February 1981 meeting of recently elected President Ronald Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries in the the White House Roosevelt room, Regan asked Casey what he saw as his goal as CIA Director. Inter-alia, he replied:

“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”
William Casey (February 1981)  (White House Roosevelt Room)

Affiliations

• Office of Strategic Services
• Committee on the Present Danger
• Central Intelligence Agency
• National Strategy Information Center
• Manhattan Institute

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
The secret war against Sweden	Sweden Stockholm Baltic Sea Karlskrona Hårsfjärden	A large number of "Soviet" submarine intrusions in Swedish waters in the 1980s, in reality committed by NATO under false flag. The intrusions were about deception and PSYOPs, to change the mindset of the Swedes, to make them adapt to US interests.

 

A Document by William Casey

Title	Document type	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Affidavit of William Casey	Wikispooks Page	William Colby National Security Agency Mena CIA/Drug trafficking "Iran-Contra" United States Army/Security Agency	An admission by William Casey, DCI, that he approved smuggling of cocaine into USA, having chosen Mena, Arkansas as a shipment point, with the support of Bill Clinton and Bill Weld. Casey names a range of names, including John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, Oliver North and William Colby, the CIA, NSA and ASA.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Henry Vinson	“I felt a potential risk to my life was CIA Director William Casey's patronage of my escort service. The Washington Times reported that Casey attended parties at Spence's house, and that Casey and Spence were "friends", but its reporters weren't aware that their friendship had a common denominator that entailed procuring gay escorts from me. William Casey started to phone me for gay escorts in 1986. Like Barney Frank, his preferred escort was an eighteen-year-old with minimal body hair and a slender swimmer's physique. Although he requested that I supply him with underage escorts, I told him that I wouldn't acquiesce to that request.”	Henry Vinson	2015

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Maggie's Guilty Secret	article	December 2013	John Hughes-Wilson	A brief resume of the Arms-to-Iraq affair by a former colonel on NATO's international political staff in Brussels. It revisits the abortive rescue of US diplomatic staff held hostage by Iran under President Carter, paving the way for the UK to supply arms to both sides in the soon-to-follow Iran-Iraq war in covert defiance of UN sanctions. The UK establishment has been engaged in a monumental cover-up ever since.

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